10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Picard
In Star Trek: Picard, death is more than just a bad vintage of fermented mead.
After 20 years in-universe, and only a little less out of it, things changed quite a bit for ol' J.L., now on the vineyard. With time, some habits die hard. So do characters in Star Trek. Picard saw his fair share of death during his stint as Captain of the Enterprises D and E, but was it more messed up? Only someone of sheer bleeping hubris could say.
Season one of Star Trek: Picard killed tens of thousands, in addition to the millions, if not billions elsewhere in the franchise, before it began. It also killed its main character at the end, along with one of the Datas. Q 'died' in season two, though things are never quite so straightforward for the non-linear. In season three, the curious alliance between Changeling and Borg caused death in unknown numbers.
Then, there was just the one of Liam Shaw — the captain we loved to hate, then simply loved. Less 'messed up,' more messed us up. I'm not crying. I just need some time to myself in my bucket!
10. Robo And Romulan Cop
Star Trek: Picard's very first episode, Remembrance, began with a bang over a spot of tea. It continued with murder after a glass of wine (and whatever was about to come out of that replicator). Time for the Xahean was cut short with a knife to the chest. The even more secret police of the Romulan secret police was after Dahj. Her life — and death — was only going to get worse.
"Because everything inside of me says that I'm safe with you," Dahj later told Picard at the vineyard. Err, have you seen his galactic track record? Besides, one man and his wine are not an army against the Zhat Vash. Dahj did her android utmost on the San Franciscan rooftop, but it wasn't enough. Death was fairly swift but spectacularly gruesome.
It was a particularly brutal execution method to spit acid. For the Romulan executioner, death was excruciating. The lower half of his face burnt away. For Dahj, her entire upper body was seemingly impacted. Her agonising screams were only afforded a reprieve by the explosion of a disruptor weapon, also hit by the acid. She was vaporised on the spot.